Thanks Gambass. Just no written rules at all, for no one of the various versions of the game?I fancied to replay with friends a game according to the then-a-days rules, with heavy ball, without the permission of running with it and without tries.

Jumping one century forward... I've seen casually on the net this 1934 poster of the Catalunya v Italy match, ended 5-5. On the side the report of the game, from the historical on line archive of newspaper "La Stampa" from Turin. "Twenty thousands spectators"!

Canalina wrote:Thanks Gambass. Just no written rules at all, for no one of the various versions of the game?I fancied to replay with friends a game according to the then-a-days rules, with heavy ball, without the permission of running with it and without tries.

You can find some written rules here and there (like the interdiction of ball handling per exemple), but I d'ont think, you could find a full comprehensive set of rules. And in any case, it will be only valid for one school.

The prologue adverts that...The listing of the rugby international matches of the GDR proves to be difficult for several reasons:- the DRSV had no association newspaper, the reporting in the newspapers was low, - Following the 1969 DTSB competitive sports decision, rugby, like other non-medal sports at the Olympics, was no longer promoted and international sports traffic was restricted, so rugby was barely taking place in the media, - After 1969, the opponents of the DRSV selection were often not the national teams of each country, so these games do not count as an international match.This list is aligned with the following rugby associations: DEN, NED, ROU, SRB (for YUG) and SWE. The matches against POL were compared with the book "Encyclopedia polskiego rugby" by Maciej Powała-Niedźwiecki and Jacek Wierzbicki, the matches against TCH with the books "60 Let Československého Ragby" and "75 Let Českého Ragby" by Petr Skála. Special thanks go to Vesso Stoyanov from the Bulgarian rugby association, who provided data on the tournaments and games in Bulgaria.

In some XIX century rugby photos, like the one below from 1893, you may see a player collocated a bit far from the other, under his posts, acting like a goalkeeper.It seems a collocation a bit pointless if the opponents can score also kicking above the bar or running into the try-area on the side of the posts, but that position would have a sense if the opponents may run into a try only between the posts, like in soccer.Do you know if during a period of the rugby history there was the obligation to score a try just through the posts?

The Serbian "National" rugby team, April 1918 when they played in Edinburgh. The team was formed of youngsters from Serbia, then a Kingdom under foreign occupation, who were secretly sent to George Heriots School in Edinburgh via Albania and Greece in 1916 for recuperation (many youngsters fought in the liberation army ) and education. It seems they took to rugby quite well and quickly. Apparently 10 000 people watched them in what appears to have been a 7s tournament beat a multinational schools selection 8 - 3.

From an italian historical video archive, some shots from a 1931 match in Paris with a team from Heidelberg. Just look the first twenty seconds of action: I think there would have been three red cards if it was in our time

Canalina wrote:From an italian historical video archive, some shots from a 1931 match in Paris with a team from Heidelberg. Just look the first twenty seconds of action: I think there would have been three red cards if it was in our time

Great find.My first guess was that the team in darker shirts should be RG Heidelberg, as they don't use any stripes in opposite to SC Neuenheim and Heidelberger RK. But I could be wrong.

How to grow rugby worldwide?Look at the world ranking in July. Teams ranked 1-10 have to play one team from 11-20 (they don't play in a regular competition) away the next year. 11-20 play 21-30 away and so on. Yes, it really is that simple.

- No compensassion for missing time- No non 'reasonable" travel fees (is my sandwich reasonable enough ? )- No financial gains- No non-financial gains (no Bayona ham for you )- No jobs, nor "situations" that could be gained by your rugby skills (good luck with that)- No non rugby jobs within the club (as a coach for instance)

They did try to inforce them (well some of them did try), but it failed miserabily which led to the British leaving (1931), the birth of RL (1934), and ultimately to the end of the club championship (1939, as to reunite with the British).

Amz, you must cancel "&t=4s" at the tail of your link (that 'code' means: "the video starts at 0'04" of its length"), so it should work

This is the article of "La Stampa", a newspaper based in Turin, about that match. An article quite justificatory: "the causes of the loss are the referee Short, which permitted the romanian fists that knocked down our players, and two forced substitutions due to injuries". Italian points were all scored by flyhalf Stefano Bettarello: one try, one penalty, one conversion. Was that Stoica related to Christian Stoica, which played for Italy twenty years later?Thanks for the channel, well done!